Составить хороший ! 20 by 4,000 years ago, there were a number of civilizations in the world. most of these cultures were in places where there was good land for farming. yet one civilization grew on the rocky soil of crete, an island in the mediterranean sea. crete has never been an ideal place to live. its coasts are rough. the land is hilly and rocky. in only a few places is the land good for farming. crete’s climate has always been mild. winters are cool. summers are hot. long ago the island was a little cooler and wetter than it is now. still, crete has never had as much rain as the farmers there have needed. why, then, did people come to crete? perhaps because it was at the centre of the things. across the sea to the east lay southwest asia. there people were already building cities. to the south it was egypt, a growing civilization. to the north lay europe. people there were farming and building villages along the mediterranean sea. crete, then, lay at the crosswords of the mediterranean world. this fact was very important and brought people to the shores of the island. it also helped them to build a civilization there. the first cretans came to the island about seven and a half thousand years ago. they probably crossed the sea from southwest asia. just to find their new home, these first settlers had to know something about sailing. early cretans depended greatly upon the sea for food. much of their diet was made up of fish. they also grew grapes and olives and kept sheep, goats and pigs. they drank goat milk and ate goat cheese. they also hunted wild pigs, birds and rabbits. the cretans lived on an island and knew the sea, they had become fine sailors. they built strong boats and sailed far from home landing in egypt and on the coast of southwest asia. as you know i was in crete. i’ve brought some souvenirs from crete. one of them is a pithagorath’s cup or a «fair cup», which has a line inside. a tradition says that when pithagoras looked after the workers who were building the town samos, he invented this cup to moderate their wish to drink wine. let’s make an experiment. if i pour water not uppper the line, i can easily drink water, but if i’ m greedy and the water overpasses the line, the cup has immediately emptied. the moral: drink with measure or, even, be modest with your wishes.

Viktoriahhjgfdsaqw    1   04.09.2019 06:20    1